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Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
Key issues and questions for charities to consider based on insights from our casework into campaigning and political activity during previous election periods.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
Analysis of the law relating to the principles of public benefit.
Understand the rules on political activity and campaigning and how they are regulated.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
What trustees need to consider when acquiring land, whether for the charity’s own use or as an investment.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
Privacy policy about how we process your data when you submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) or Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) request.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
How charity trustees can be liable for the actions of employees, volunteers and others who act for the charity.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Charitable status and tax issues connected with affordable home ownership.
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2023 and 2024, and why new questions have been included.
Information on the rules that charities must follow, and how candidates can engage with them during an election campaign.
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